Preparing for winter

Winter seems to be coming early to Upstate New York my husband says it might as well snow and get it over with. You know the only reason he said that is so he could get his winter toys out. We're preparing for it a whole month early. Getting all our winter clothes out, digging all our snow shovel in the shed that had been buried by all the summer stuff thrown in there. After that, change the oil in the snow blower and make sure the belts are good. Time for me to put up all the heavy curtains to slow down the cold. Here we go again...another six months.